Prof. Wenjing YE's Profile

August 19th, 2009
Name: 
Prof. Wenjing YE (PhD, Cornell)
Position: 
Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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Brief Introduction: 
Professor Ye received her B.S. degree from University of Science and Technology of China, her M.S. degree from University of California at San Diego and her Ph.D. degree from Cornell University. Before she joined the faculty of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, she was a postdoctoral associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and then an assistant Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology.
Membership: 
Member, Program Committee of International Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Microsystems, Semiconductors, Sensors and Actuators (MSM), since 2001
Member, IEEE
Research Interests: 
Numerical techniques: integral methods, Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC), Molecular Dynamics (MD), Multiscale numerical methods
Modeling and design of micro/nano systems, micro resonator design and application
Rarefied gas transport
Representative Publications: 

W. Ye, S. Mukherjee and N.C. MacDonald, "Optimal Shape Design of an Electrostatic Comb Drive in Microelectromechanical Systems," IEEE/ASME Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 16-26, 1998.
W. Ye, X. Wang, W. Hemmert, D. Freeman and J. White, "Air Damping in Lateral Oscillating Micro Resonators: a Numerical and Experimental Study," IEEE/ASME Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol. 12, No. 5, pp. 557, 566, 2003.
J. Ding and W. Ye, "A Fast Integral Approach for Drag force Calculation Due to Oscillatory Slip Stokes Flows," International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 60, No. 9, pp. 1535, 1567, 2004.
S. Hutcherson and W. Ye, "On the Squeeze-Film Damping of Micro Resonators in the Free-Molecule Regime," IOP Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Vol. 14, No. 12, pp. 1726, 1733, 2004.
J. Ding, W. Ye and L. Gray, "An Accelerated Surface Discretization Based BEM Approach for Non-homogenous Linear Problems in 3-D Complex Domain," International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 63, No. 12, pp. 1775, 1795, 2005.
N. Masters, W. Ye and W. King, "The Impact of Sub-continuum Gas Conduction on Topography Measurement Sensitivity Using Heated Atomic Force Microscope Cantilevers," Physics of Fluids, Vol. 17, pp. 100615, 2005. Republished online in the Virtual Journal of Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 12 (16), 2005.
J. Ding and W. Ye, "A Grid Based Integral Approach for Quasilinear Problems," Computational Mechanics, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 114-118, 2006.
N. Masters and W. Ye, "Octant Flux Splitting Information Preservation DSMC Method for Thermally Driven Flows," Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 226, pp. 2044-2062, 2007.